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[scampster]

I second the idea (although I'm now where near a diss). What a great idea for a coffee table book!

And I like the idea of a picture in regalia.

Sadly, I will not be walking, so there will be no regalia pictures for me (unless I go and find some random regalia and put it on and take a picture).

I actually think one of my first posts on the fora was asking if I would regret not walking, and I left the conversation pretty convinced I would go back to walk, but now I can't justify two trips back to grad school town in a month (I'll be there next week to defend).

[galactic_hedgehog]

I think you should photoshop your head onto a picture of glowdart in regalia.

[scampster]

I think you should photoshop your head onto a picture of glowdart in regalia.

Now that would be pretty excellent.

[southerntransplant]

I second the idea (although I'm now where near a diss). What a great idea for a coffee table book!

And I like the idea of a picture in regalia.

Sadly, I will not be walking, so there will be no regalia pictures for me (unless I go and find some random regalia and put it on and take a picture).

I actually think one of my first posts on the fora was asking if I would regret not walking, and I left the conversation pretty convinced I would go back to walk, but now I can't justify two trips back to grad school town in a month (I'll be there next week to defend).

I got done in August and got my diploma soon after. My parents really wanted to see me walk, so I walked the following spring. I think walking or not walking is a function of one's parents attending or not. Had my parents not wanted to see it I wouldn't have done it.

[scampster]

I second the idea (although I'm now where near a diss). What a great idea for a coffee table book!

And I like the idea of a picture in regalia.

Sadly, I will not be walking, so there will be no regalia pictures for me (unless I go and find some random regalia and put it on and take a picture).

I actually think one of my first posts on the fora was asking if I would regret not walking, and I left the conversation pretty convinced I would go back to walk, but now I can't justify two trips back to grad school town in a month (I'll be there next week to defend).

I got done in August and got my diploma soon after. My parents really wanted to see me walk, so I walked the following spring. I think walking or not walking is a function of one's parents attending or not. Had my parents not wanted to see it I wouldn't have done it.

My parents left it up to me and said they weren't going to pressure me either way about it. The timing of December graduations are just so awkward with the holidays, especially since neither they no I live near grad school town.

I think that's another reason I wanted to give them my dissertation - as some mark of this whole process!

[namazu]

I love Margiolds' idea about the macaroni card.

If your school only offers ugly institutional binding (in your choice -- or theirs -- of maroon, hunter green, navy, or black!), you could also consider printing a copy of your diss and having a local print shop or bookbinder bind it nicely.

[scampster]

I love Margiolds' idea about the macaroni card.

If your school only offers ugly institutional binding (in your choice -- or theirs -- of maroon, hunter green, navy, or black!), you could also consider printing a copy of your diss and having a local print shop or bookbinder bind it nicely.

Near my masters school there was a really nice bookbindery. I got myself and my advisor a bound copy, both in purple :-)

[ticklemepink]

I totally agree with all of the above suggestions!  Although I didn't give my parents my nicely bound copy that my university gave me for my senior undergraduate honors thesis (it's in MY room!), my parents et al got a copy bound at a local print shop.  They were just happy to read it and brag to their friends (actually my mom got a few colleagues at work asking her to borrow a copy...).  They just wanted to get their hands on my thesis as quickly as possible! 

But for my MA thesis, I do plan on getting it nicely bound for my grandparents who put up with me when I crashed at their place in order to do my research in their city (and if they hadn't move there, I wouldn't have done this).

As for walking at the graduation... I originally didn't want to do it.  After all, I figured that I'd just walk at my doctoral graduation when I get into a PhD program, right?  Also, I thought my graduation would be held at my university's HUGE stadium and that nobody would see me.  Then I found out that the graduate students' graduation was held in an auditorium, separate from undergrads'.  My parents, then said, you're walking!  We're coming!

Oh, okay.  Now I think of it, my graduate degree does mean quite a bit to them as my mom never went to graduate school and my dad dropped out after his comps because he decided there was more to life than graduate school.  They really can't stop talking about me being in graduate school.  So... I'll do it in May.

So.... be a good child and do what you can for your parents to make them proud. 

[glowdart]

I think you should photoshop your head onto a picture of glowdart in regalia.

Now that would be pretty excellent.

HA!  I hope you like the floppy hats and have the right school colors! 

(I didn't walk either.  I borrowed the regalia.)